Abstract An ecologically safe and economically justified method of stabilization the used biosorbents was developed. Sorbent contaminated with heavy metals has been successfully solidified/stabilized using a hydraulic binder. The test results indicated that up to 1% biosorbent residue could be added without compromising compressive strength mortar. modified mortars did not change significantly ...

In this study, spent compact fluorescent lamps were characterized to determine the distribution of mercury. The procedure used in this research allowed mercury to be extracted in the vapor phase, from the phosphor powder, and the glass matrix. Mercury concentration in the three phases was determined by the method known as cold vapor atomic absorption spectrometry. Median values obtained in the ...

The primary objective of this paper is to enhance the water-vapor-adsorption capacity of multiwall-carbon-nanotube (MWCNT) from nitrogen gas by grafting sulfonic acid groups and doping palladium nanoparticles into the adsorbent. MWCNT has been selected to be modified because of having homogeneous adsorption energy compared to silica gel. As a result, it is capable of creating isotherm having sh...

Laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) is capable of metal imaging by acquiring local spatial information. However, the preparation an appropriate standard for quantitative analysis difficult because matrices between and sample should match, homogeneity concentration in required. Hence, aim this study was to establish a highly mercury method that utilizes LA-ICP...

abstract background and objective: there have been concerns over possible association between mercury and neurodevelopmental outcomes in infants. in this study we aimed to determine whether blood levels of mercury are above safe values in iranian infants or not. materials and methods:  a total of 85 infants (0, 2, 4 and 6 months old) were enrolled in this study. all of them received vaccines ac...

Optical absorption spectra of thin film samples, formed by the codeposition of zinc vapor with D2 and CH4, have been recorded with synchrotron radiation. With sufficiently low metal vapor flux, samples deposited at 4 K were found to consist exclusively of isolated zinc atoms for both solids. The atomic absorption bands in the quantum solids D2 and CH4 were found to exhibit large bandwidths, beh...

This study demonstrated the signal enhancement interference from soluble iron (Fe) during mercury (Hg) determination in water by cold vapor atomic absorption spectrometry (CV-AAS) using sodium borohydride (NaBH4) as reductant. In presence of 50 mg L−1 Fe, Hg values will be overestimated around 25%. The reason for is still unclear, but it speculated to attributable catalyst function equilibrium ...